Cold-Hearted Rake (The Ravenels, #1)

by Lisa Kleypas

“Never apologize to women. It only confirms that you were wrong, and incenses them further.”

“But I hope to love them someday. Sometimes one must love something before it becomes lovable.”

“I know many scientific facts about the human heart—not the least of which is that it’s far easier to make a heart stop beating entirely than to keep it from loving the wrong person.”

“There are times in life when all of us have to bear the unbearable.”